NSW Caselaw
District Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: Bannon v Commissioner of Police [2015] NSWDC 60 Date of orders: 13 March 2015 Decision date: 13 March 2015 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Neilson DCJ Decision: Set aside the decision of the Commissioner of Police made 12 August 2013
Determine that the suffering by the plaintiff of the condition of "moderate to severe bilateral high frequency sensori-neural deafness" was caused by her having been hurt on duty
Set aside the decision of the Commissioner of Police made 16 August 2013
Determine that the plaintiff's "hearing loss" to which her application to the SASTC dated 24 July 2013 relates was caused by her having been hurt on duty Catchwords: WORKERS COMPENSATION – Police superannuation – Whether plaintiff's hearing loss boilermakers' deafness or hereditodegenerative – Plaintiff's deafness disproportionate to noise exposure – Attributable to personal susceptibility Legislation Cited: Police Regulation (Superannuation) Act 1906 Cases Cited: Brown v Commissioner of Police [2013] NSWDC 273 Galdemar v Asta Enterprises Pty Ltd (1998) 17 NSWCCR 165 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Anastasia Therese Bannon (Plaintiff) Commissioner of Police (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: Mr T Ower (Plaintiff) Ms K Petrolo (Defendant)
Solicitors: Walter Madden Jenkins (Plaintiff) Rankin Ellison (Defendant) File Number(s): RJ48/14 Publication restriction: No
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